Estimation of surface soil water content from surface temperatures in dust source regions of Mongolia and China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1847-1853

  Kimura, Reiji ^a   Shinoda, Masato ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arid region; Asian dust events; NDVI; Remote sensing; Yellow sand

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DUST EVENT; DUST EMISSION; DUST EVENT; DUST SOURCES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MONGOLIA; NDVI; NORTHEAST ASIA; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE SENSORS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE SOIL; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE-VEGETATION DRYNESS INDICES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; WIND EROSIONS;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER CONTENT;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AERODYNAMICS; ARID REGION; DUST; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND EROSION;

CHINA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 84857656553     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1167-9     Document Type: Article

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